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From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	jmorris@namei.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 0/4] Syslog permissions, revised
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:40:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061113064043.264211000@panix.com> (raw)

This patchset revises my attempt from last week to allow running klogd
unprivileged without a root shim.  I believe I have addressed all
outstanding objections: in particular, the privilege model enforced by
SELinux is unchanged (you have to have system__syslog_mod to read
/proc/kmsg).  I have also included some nice refactorings (symbolic
constants for sys_syslog opcodes, that sort of thing) and a few
bugfixes (minor and unlikely to affect any live application, but
still).

I hope that this can be considered for 2.6.19; it is low risk in my
opinion and it would be nice to get this functionality into the hands
of the distributors sooner.

zw



             reply	other threads:[~2006-11-13  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-13  6:40 Zack Weinberg [this message]
2006-11-13  6:40 ` [patch 1/4] Add <linux/klog.h> Zack Weinberg
2006-11-13  6:40 ` [patch 2/4] permission mapping for sys_syslog operations Zack Weinberg
2006-11-13  9:25   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-13  9:29     ` Zack Weinberg
2006-11-13  9:47       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-13 17:17         ` Zack Weinberg
2006-11-13 17:22           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-13 21:13             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-11-13  6:40 ` [patch 3/4] Refactor do_syslog interface Zack Weinberg
2006-11-13  6:40 ` [patch 4/4] Distinguish /proc/kmsg access from sys_syslog Zack Weinberg

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